preventives
- plural of preventive.
Example Sentences
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She packs a special bag for Pepper, which includes food, water bowls, regular medications, flea and tick preventives, a litter bag, leash, collar, bedding and grooming supplies.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2023
It will also include clinical trials of treatments and preventives, which it hopes to launch by fall.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 9, 2022
That’s different from the way we typically experience vaccines: as preventives for diseases that feel controlled or even obsolete.
From Slate • Jul. 1, 2021
Websites touting miracle cures and preventives – herbs, teas, essential oils, tinctures and colloidal silver – are prevalent.
From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2020
Ordinary citizens also offered advice and preventives through the town’s newspapers.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
